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IDC LAB: COOPERATIVEPUIC 3101 IDP 7539
Spring 2013
Parsons The New School for Design
School of Design Strategies
Integrated Design Program
CHALLENGE 1:An Explorative Tool(learning how to see,
listen, observe, provoke, gather)
Deliverables: 1) concept prototype 2)
testing/response 3) two critical questions
Objective: Design an object, service, orsystem that facilitates the exploration of
someone elses experience with their help.
Your design should enable three aspects of
communication / knowledge exchange:
articulation, observation, and recognition.
This challenge is intended to facilitate a broad conversation in our class about the nature of
exploration, discovery, and understanding and to challenge our assumptions about these
endeavors in our design practices. How do we come to know things about other people, unfamiliar
contexts, or new situations? How much can we expect to truly know about experiences outside ofour own? How does what we observe differ from what we understand? What constitutes
exploration (for instance, is making a form of exploration)? What encourages or discourages
discovery? What role do others play in shaping our explorations, discoveries, and understanding?
Your goal in this challenge is to engage with these questions, and/or those of your own, through
making an object, service, system, interaction, or intervention that facilitates the exploration of
someone elses experience and promotes shared understanding. This explorative tool should
seek to enable the articulation, observation, and recognition of new knowledge between two or
more people (one of whom could be you). You will begin by developing a concept for your tool and
a scenario of its use with others. Then you will create and test a prototype and document and
reflect on its use by shaping two critical questions to present in class. The insights and questions
developed in this challenge could serve as the basis for your work in the following challenges.
Exploring, listening, observing, provoking, and gathering are fundamental to design processes of
all sorts, and they take on additional significance in collaborative design processes and in the
design of collaborative systems. Your projects are expected to show a critical engagement with
these issues. You are encouraged to work with materials, concepts, and skills that are interesting
and compelling to you. Your design might seek to solve forexploration, discovery, and
understanding as design problems, or it could also primarily pose questions, reveal problems, or
suggest possibilities about these activities through its use or documentation. Any or all of these are
welcomed outcomes for this challenge.
DEADLINES: Feb 7 [Week 2]:
Task A
Cooperative
Process Example
Feb 14 [Week 3]:
Task B
Tool Concept and
Scenario of Use
Feb 21 [Week 4]:
Task C
Prototyping and
Critical Questions
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CHALLENGE SCEHDULE:
Jan 31
[Week 1]
Introductions to course and
to each other, collaborative
process examples, my
cooperative life
CHALLENGE 1 Task A:
Identify an example (case study) of a collaborative
process. Create a PDF (tabloid-sized, landscape)
including the name of your collaborative process, at least
one representative image, and a short description of its
participants, structures, and outcomes. Email me your
document and print it out for review in class.
READ:
Action Research and Change, by David Gray, p. 373-393
Feb 7
[Week 2]
Discuss reading, introduce
CHALLENGE 1, expert
insight presentation,
Sections Meet Together:55 West 13
thRoom 304
CHALLENGE 1 Task B:
Create a visual and/or text-based scenario representing
the use of your explorative tool. Be prepared to answer
these questions about it: Whos exploring? Whose
experience is being explored? What is the context? Whatis happening and how?
Feb 14
[Week 3]
Review collaborative
process examples, studio
time
CHALLENGE 1 Task C:
Build a prototype of your tool based on your scenario and
document deployment. Prepare for review, including
presenting your concept, prototype, testing/response and
2 critical questions.
Feb 21
[Week 4]
REVIEW CHALLENGE 1,
skill workshop, introduce
collaborative tool examples
CHALLENGE 2 Task A:
Identify an example (case study) of a collaborative tool.
Create a PDF (tabloid-sized, landscape) including the
name of your collaborative tool, at least one
representative image, and a short description of its users,
usage, and outcomes. Email me your document and print
it out for review next class.
READ: Creative Collaborations, by Marc Downie, et al.
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